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Book Description

Emily Pearce: A Life of Art is a biography in art of the development of the artist Emily Fanny Rowell Pearce from a small child to an elegant accomplished artist. In 122 images created with every technique and media, the book follows her artistic development through the phases of her life: childhood, youth, military wife and mother, college student grandmother, and professional artist and teacher. Thirty-seven photographs of her life and her travel tours to the art centers in South Korea, Russia, and France are included.

Author’s Biography

Patricia A. McDonough has been writing and editing books for a lifetime. Her third book Without Keys was a Pulitzer Prize semi-finalist. Owner of McDONOUGH CONSULTING, she edits and coaches authors, and sometimes is a ghostwriter and as owner of Terra Sancta Press, she’s published 25 books. With life’s twists and turns, by working two jobs, she had careers as a solid waste management consultant, real estate sales, a builder, a building inspector, a community development mortgage banker, and a grief counselor. She graduated from American University, Washington, D.C., with a B.A. in Government & Public Administration and minors in Fine Arts and Psychology. Pat is the mother of two sons, and grandmother of five boys. At home in Florida, she enjoys editing, publishing, swimming, wildlife photography, and quilting.

For 30 years, Claudia E. Pearce has worked as a computer scientist for the U.S. Government. She lives with her husband Jonathan Cohen, in the Maryland countryside outside of Washington, D.C. Claudia has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and has a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Florida. Claudia grew up on Florida’s Space Coast water skiing next to alligators and swimming with dolphins in the Intercoastal Waterway where their home was situated. Claudia spent ten years in Colorado and the Southwest Indian Country where she taught at the K-12 schools and local colleges before making her way to Maryland. Claudia is an avid trumpet player, playing in orchestra, concert, and jazz bands, and a quilter who has shown her work in international juried quilt shows.

Bryan and Deta Pearce lived in the college town of Orono, Maine for 37 years. Bryan taught in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Maine and Deta was a high school guidance counselor. Bryan’s B.S. and M.S. degrees are from M.I.T., with a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Deta received her B.S. from Boston University and graduate degrees from the University of Florida and the University of Maine. Now retired, they look forward to travel, enjoying time with their grandchildren, and sailing in Florida.